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Walid Abu Bakr (born 1938) is a Palestinian literary critic, novelist and journalist. He was born and raised in worships. He studied philosophy, and worked in the field of social and journalistic research. He has a prominent activity in the Arab cultural press as a cultural editor, literary critic and editor-in-chief. He worked for a period of his life as a physics teacher at Ramallah High School. He is a member of the General Secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Literary Criticism. He lives in Ramallah. He has written several novels and literary studies, and has translated several literary works, and has been interested in translating children's literature as well.
his biography
Walid Abu Bakr was born in the village of Ya'bad in the Jenin district in Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and grew up there. He received his primary and secondary education in its schools, then moved to the Teachers' House in Amman. After graduating, he moved to the city of Ramallah to work as a physics teacher for secondary wool from 1957 to 1959. Then he was arrested in Ramallah until 1960. After his release, he moved to Kuwait, and completed his university studies in philosophy and sociology at Beirut Arab University, and graduate studies were at Kuwait University while she was in Philosophy of science.
He worked in the Kuwaiti press, and began as an editor, then head of a department, and then editor-in-chief of a magazine. He published several critical articles in a number of Kuwaiti magazines, most notably Al-Bayan. He lived in Kuwait for nearly thirty years, then returned to his homeland and settled in Ramallah. There, he worked as head of the Ugarit Cultural Center, and continued his journalistic career and contributed to the Al-Ayyam newspaper.
His writings
In April 2021, on the occasion of Palestinian Culture Day, the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers issued his “completed fictional works.” These works include four novels: “The Contagion, the Threads, the Kindness, and the Faces.” List of his books:
From his novels:
"The Contagion", 1978
"Threads", 1980
"The Kindness", 1998
"The Faces", 2003
Among his publications in criticism and studies:
"The Social Issue in Kuwaiti Theatre", 1985
Sorrows in the Spring of Oranges: A Study on Samira Azzam, 1985.
"The Third Voice in the Kuwaiti Story", 1985
"Reality and Challenge in the Novel of the Occupied Territory", 1989
"The Environment in the Story of the Arabian Gulf", 1991
"The Image of the Arab in Israeli Literature", 1994
“Body language in the theater”, or “body language on stage”, 1999
Mood in the Literary Text and the Risks of Normalization in the Palestinian Narrative, 2014
"Representations of Reality in Narrative Art"
“Writing with the flavor of death”, a critical study, 2010
« The phenomenon of acculturation and its devastating effects on the narrative - a new study on a different critical term, 2017
«The original idea in the inner fabric of the novel, 2021
Among his literary translations:
“The Story of a Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be a God” Stories, Itgar Keret, 2003
Red Sky in the Morning, Elizabeth Laird, 2003
"Games for Actors and Non-Actors", Augusto Boal, 2006
"I'm Captured by the Vikings", Torel Thorstad Hogger, a Norwegian novel, 2005
"Birds of the Night", Tormod Haugen, Novel, 2005
"Blizzard", and. Owen, A Children's Story, 2004
"Farewell, Rhona", Marit Caldahl, a children's story, 2005
"The Boy Who Wanted to Own Snow", Dag Heyerdahl Larsen, Children's Story, 2007
"Election Day in the Savannah", a children's story, 2007
Among his non-literary translations:
History Curricula in Israeli School Books, 2005
"Legislative Theatre", Augusto Boal, 2010
Sharpening Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Creative Thinking and Problem Solving, 2016
“The haves and the have-nots; A Brief and Special History of Global Equality, 2018
And he also has:
“The Good Day of Sorrows”, Diwan of Poetry, 1976
"The First and the Last", two plays, 1982
“The Sword and the Pen”, a play, 2006
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